So Peter Parker is explaining to MJ that he’s just like everyone else after all — she doesn’t yet know he’s Spiderman, but he does — and the line he uses is . . . “Punch me, and I bleed.”
Where have we heard that before? Are the writers trying to tell us something? Well, probably not, but in the long tradition of Jews claiming to find Jewish connections everywhere, I thought I’d bring this up. Plus, hey, we need a superhero, and Arthur, The Tick’s sidekick just doesn’t qualify.
UPDATE: Jacob Levy passes along this list of Jewish superheroes, and The Spoons Experience e-mails me a couple — but if you check the list, you see that it proves my point. We need a serious superhero, not just Colossal Boy. (Please, no need to e-mail me about Colossal Boy’s or the others’ relative merits, or about the supposed inaccuracy of the list I link to.)
But Spoons points out something more important:
I think you should be able to claim Spiderman. After all, it sounds like a Jewish name, doesn’t it? Can you hear it? Federman, Goldman, Grossman, Leiberman, Friedman…
Wow — how could I have missed that? Maybe that means that all the big -man superheroes are Jewish.
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